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Show , v Cfioo Gfioo Gasoline Gars Gome to American Fork First Interurban Curs Arrhed Salur. day and Allrncicil Large Crowds. Saturday the first Interurban car came to American Fork, arriving hero In tho afternoon. On it were President and Manager Orcm, Vice President and Assistant Manager Armstrong, W. II. Dong, superintendent of construction; Mr. Moore, nttornoy for tho compnny; Mr. Cook, right-of-way man, and sevornl sev-ornl other members of tho company. Crowds thronged the 'Streets to see It andlYlowed tho now Car with much Interest. It was a. Combination1 enr-fdr hnuling oxpross and passengers, It will scat fifty-four passengers and Is said to have a Bpoed capacity of slxty-ftvo slxty-ftvo miles pfcr hour: Its motho power is gasoline. Tho other two cars are duplicates of tho one which tniulo tho initial trip. . A forco of men have been at work all week between town and tho mill pond hauling gravel and ballasting tho track and building the Y which runs Into tho FIrmogo property, recently acquired ac-quired for depot purposes. '.Thursday, tho first car came down from Salt Lake and' was turned on tho YVand sentKback.UK the-atttto cjipltnl front foremost. The gravel trains running ulong Main street and advent of the choo-choo choo-choo cars have created much Interest all week. The-little brown Japs have deeply Interested the small boy, and ono enterprising business maii had ir sign printed In Japanese figures and placed iln his window to tell tho1 Orientals Orien-tals thut ho wanted their trade. (hen lllg Reception. Thursday u number of the' Interurban Interur-ban railway odlclals and others came down to. American Fork In one of tholr enrs to luspucl'tho road, arrlWng here obout 12:15. Thoy wore met tit tho Y by Mr. S. L. Chlpmnu, ono of tho directors of (he road; the city council, and othor leading citizens; the American Amer-ican Fork band dhd-all tho students from tho high Bchool and public schools and some three hundred citizens, citi-zens, totaling In all somo 1,500 people, who gave them a rousing reception. The ofllcluls and visitors, who consisted con-sisted of Messrs. W. C. Orem, Simon Dambcrger, W. R. Armstrong and Mr. Morrison of Salt Lako City; Messrs. Day and DIgley of Ogden, and Messrs. Cookand Edwards of Chicago, weft shown around 'the town, lsitlng the Tabernacle and soeraL other points of Intorcst, nnd .wore then taken to tho Grant Hotel and banquetcdii Later IJjoy travolcd to tho, end of -tho line and Inspected the road, nnd III thoiif. tonoon.,sompiof.thdiPrty went on to Provo. 'by .'auto to-Inspect tluit end, -, O ii' . i |
